Life and death in Civil War prisons
Subtitle: the parallel torments of Corporal John Wesley Minnich, C.S.A. and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A.
By: J. Michael Martinez.
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Minnich, J. W. 1844-1932.; Goss, Warren Lee, 1835-1925.; Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fires of sectional hatred; title: Surrendering just then was not on my program; title: The black and reeking pits; title: He is lost, indeed, who loses hope; title: The exigencies of the moment; title: We were ushered into what seemed to us hades itself; title: Too much fuss over a very small matter; title: The grave question of escape; title: That most terrible of afflictions : hunger; title: Sickness and death were inevitable accompaniments; title: Crazy with the idea of freedom and home; title: It's twelve o'clock and all is well, and old Jeff Davis is gone to hell!; title: Loathsome bones of a sad and lamentable past; title: The terribleness of the sufferings; title: The last bugle call.